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  • Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology

    The Grasshopper; Where’s the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience

    by John Hollingshead, James Albery, F.C. Burnand, W.S. Gilbert ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    From long-haired 'Fleshly Poets' to intense, 'ultra pre-Raphaelite' artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement.During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Street of Wonderful Possibilities

    Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street

    by Devon Cox ...
    A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – London’s Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.For Wilde, the street was full of ‘wonderful ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Beyond Beauty

    A Portrait of John Singer Sargent

    by Devon Cox ...
    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    The definitive, groundbreaking biography of John Singer Sargent, the great American artist of the Gilded Age.John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is one of the most famous American artists of all time, yet his personal life and character have remained elusive more than a century after his death. Today, as Sargent’s reputation reaches new heights, the man―restless, deceptively daring, and shrouded in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Stories Behind London’s Streets (Part Two)

    by Peter Thurgood ...
    The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of hope, happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there. Did you know for instance that when Great Scotland ... Read more

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  • The Long Weekend

    Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939

    by Adrian Tinniswood ...
    From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar periodAs WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • My Old Man

    A Personal History of Music Hall

    by John Major ...
    Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences’ hopes, fears and the general absurdity of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • I Never Knew That About London

    by Christopher Winn ...
    Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's compelling, and at times, ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Secret Life of the Savoy

    Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel

    by Olivia Williams ...
    The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations—and one hundred years—of glamour and high society.For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Oscar Wilde

    A Life in Letters

    by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde ...
    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Book Of Lists London

    by Nick Rennison ...
    Why did London Underground once employ a one-legged man to ride up and down the escalators at Earl's Court tube station? What did Hitler plan to do with Nelson's Column? Why is London's only medieval mummy a prostitute named Clarice la Claterballock? How did a beer flood in Tottenham Court Road drown nine people? Where can you see a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers?Containing chapters covering ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • London By Tube

    Over 80 intriguing short walks minutes away from London's tube stops

    by Christopher Winn ...
    **Did you know that..From Stonebridge Park on the Bakerloo Line you can walk to the largest Hindu temple in Europe?From Ealing Broadway on the Central Line you can walk to the oldest film studios in the world?From Stratford on the Central Line you can walk to, and abseil down, Britain's tallest sculpture?**London is a city of surprises and variety, over 600 square miles packed full of character. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Gainsborough (Illustrated)

    by Thomas Gainsborough, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 28 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach to high art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD